Links News 
Friday 3rd October 2025
Dear Links Families,
Black History Month Has Begun!
Today we kicked off our Black History Month celebrations with a fantastic Live Assembly hosted by Picture News, joined by schools from all over the country. It was a brilliant way to start the month, and we were lucky enough to hear from a very special guest—Swarzy from Radio 1!
Swarzy shared her personal journey growing up and spoke passionately about the people who inspired her, including civil rights icon Rosa Parks, wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin, and the legendary Williams sisters from the world of tennis. She posed a powerful question to all of us:
Who is on your team? She reminded us how important it is to have people—parents, friends, teachers—who stand by us, especially during tough times.
Over the past few years, we’ve explored Black History Month through art, music, local history, and English. This year, we’re taking a new direction and celebrating through PE and Sport! We’re excited to shine a light on Black athletes, sporting achievements, and the power of teamwork and resilience.
Keep an eye out for updates—we can’t wait to share all the amazing things we’ll be doing throughout the month!
Links PTA
A big shout out to our wonderful PTA who gave up their time on a rainy Sunday afternoon to plant some flowers from Wimbledon tennis and for planting some bulbs around the school playground.
We would also like to say thank you to Westland and Thompson and Morgan for kindly donating the compost and bulbs. Unfortunately you will have to wait until Spring to see the beautiful blooms and fabulous display of bulbs.
Links Values Award
Links Value Winners 3rd October 2025
This week’s Values Awards go to:
- Nursery - Muhammad, for his excellent understanding and retelling of the story, 'Peace At Last'.
- Reception - Ayden, for showing great attitude towards his learning and trying really hard in Phonics.
- Year 1 - Zeyd, for great contributions during Science this week.
- 2B - Anhaar, for never giving up, even when things get tricky!
- 2R - Mohamed, for actively participating in his learning.
- Year 3 - Maria, for always working extremely hard in everything she does. Maria keeps her eyes and heart open to spot those who might need a helping hand.
- 4L - Julian, for taking responsibility of his learning, asking for support when he needs it and focusing during independent activities
- 4T - Maria, for being an enthusiastic learner and sharing her fantastic ideas during class discussions.
- 5C - Asra, for showing excellent concentration in maths and always giving her best.
- 5KG - Sophia, for displaying perseverance in maths and then being confident enough to have a go.
- 6P - Ayaan, for excellent explanations and adding additional insight into our Science lesson this week
- 6S - Afnan, for being such a responsible student she always completes her homework and makes her best effort with all tasks in class.
Our Links Value winners joined Mrs Anderson and Mrs Murray for Hot Chocolate Friday!
House Points
The house point totals for this week are….
Green House - 3604
Blue House - 2644
Yellow House - 2578
Red House - 1701
Congratulations to Green House, who are still in the lead for the third week running!
Weekly Attendance 
This week’s attendance figures for each class are:
- Reception - 88.9%
- Year 1 - 91.2%
- 2B - 97.3%
- 2R - 96.3%
- Year 3 - 99.2%
- 4L - 93.4%
- 4T - 94.4%
- 5C - 95.2%
- 5KG - 96.9%
- 6S - 93.4%
- 6P - 96.4%
Congratulations to Year 3 who achieved the highest attendance this week. Lincoln the Bear will be learning with Year 3 next week, where he will be learning about volcanos in Geography and about the British Gymnast Kathy Williams - Great Britain’s first black Olympian gymnast
95% Attendance Raffle
This week’s winning tickets go to 2B, 2R, Year 3, 5C, 5KG and 6S.
Links Shout Outs
We would like to give a shout out to Sophia in 5KG who got accepted as a Young Ambassador at the Polka Theatre. She is super excited about all the upcoming opportunities and gets to wear her own special uniform!
Links in Action
Year 4 have been reading the story 'Egyptian Cinderella' and creating freeze frames to depict different parts of the story.
Our Year 6 Artists have been doing charcoal drawings of Lilan Bader, who was one of the first Black women to join the British Armed Forces during the second world war.
Lincoln learning with Year 6
Learning through Play in Reception
Lunchtime Netball.
6P at Mitcham Library
The Great Fire of London started in a bakery, so this week 2B have been making, kneading and baking bread.
Other Info
EWS - Education Wellbeing Service
The SWLSTG Education Wellbeing Service works with Links and offers lunchtime and evening parent webinars across the year to help support your child’s wellbeing and mental health.
Please scan the QR codes below or follow the links
Early Years (Nursery and Reception):
Primary (1-6):
If you are interested in 1:1 parent sessions with our friendly in-school NHS Wellbeing Practitioner to help your child’s worries or anxieties, or support their challenging or tricky behaviour, Please speak to your class teacher or Kirsten Slinger. Our Practitioner is at Links every Friday.
